Standard Parallel

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or parallel:

“... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

“The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)